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title: Create a Combination Field for a Folder
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# Create a Combination Field for a Folder

1. In the  **Navigation Pane**, click the folder for which you want to create the combination field. 
    
2. On the  **View** tab, in the **Current View** group, click **View Settings**. 
    
3. In the  **Advanced View Settings: <view&gt;** dialog box, click **Columns**. 
    
4. In the  **Show Columns** dialog box, click **New Column**. 
    
5. In the  **Name** box, type a name for the column.
    
6. In the  **Type** box, click **Combination**. 
    
7. Click  **Edit**. 
    
8. To append each value for the fields that you want to use together, click  **Joining fields and any text fragments to each other**.To show only the first field that is not blank, click  **Showing only the first non-empty field, ignoring subsequent ones**.
    
9. Click  **Field**, point to the field set that you want, and then click the field that you want to appear. 
    
10. Repeat step 9 to add each field that you want to appear. 
    
11. Click  **OK** twice.
    
12.  To position the field between the other fields in the view, click the field, and then click **Move Up** or **Move Down**. 
    
    To remove the field from the view, click  **Remove**.
    

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